8. “How do I curse whom Ěl has not cursed? And how do I rage at whom יהוה has not raged?
9. “For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I observe him. Look, a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.
10. “Who shall count the dust of Ya‛aqoḇ, and the number of one-fourth of Yisra’ĕl? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”
11. And Balaq said to Bil‛am, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have kept on blessing!”
12. And he answered and said, “Should I not take heed to speak what יהוה has put in my mouth?”
13. And Balaq said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you see them. You only see the extremity but not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
14. And he took him to the field of Tsophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. And he said to Balaq, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet over there.”
16. And יהוה came to Bil‛am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balaq, and say this.”
17. So he went to him and saw him standing by his burnt offering, and the heads of Mo’aḇ with him. And Balaq asked him, “What did יהוה say?”